MacKenzie Scott, billionaire philanthropist and Amazon co-founder, donates $640 million to hundreds of nonprofits
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Billionaire philanthropist and Amazon co-founder MacKenzie Scott announced Tuesday that she has donated another $640 million of her fortune to hundreds of nonprofit organizations.
Scott has already given billions to charity, but she changed her approach slightly for this most recent round of donations. For the first time, she set up an open call for nonprofits to directly apply for a gift through her organization, Yield Giving. In the past, her organization had participated in "quiet research," which involved privately and anonymously finding deserving organizations and secretly contacting them.
The open call had over 6,000 applicants, from which 361 organizations from 38 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico were selected "for their outstanding work advancing the voices and opportunities of individuals and families of meager or modest means, and groups who have met with discrimination and other systemic obstacles," Scott said in a statement.
